They generally do it to stay away from dealing with the american authorities.
But still people from US are investing in ICO at their own risk.
Topic: why some ICOs Block investors from USA? - page 2. (Read 362 times)
Because there are some scammers around in the cryptoworld and the US wants to protect their citizens from them. I think these regulations are good.
Does it mean that if the ICO prohobits citizen in US it is a scam? I dont think. Maybe there are rules that a certain ICO cannot comply but not a total scam. 
Many ICOs, thus, have a choice: either comply with these strict regulation and only allow accredited investors to participate, or open the ICO to everyone except those from US, China, and Singapore.
ICO is very close to crowdfunding, you know. And almost all ICO projects are startups. We know that not many startups becomes a big thing like Google, FaceBook, like Apple for example and etc. So there is a big probability of fuckup. And in that case, if the project overtook the fiasco, team is commited to refund money to investors from the above-mentioned countries. Who want this hemorrhoids?
Many ICOs, thus, have a choice: either comply with these strict regulation and only allow accredited investors to participate, or open the ICO to everyone except those from US, China, and Singapore.
You should go thank your government for that. They know much better than you what you should and shouldn't do with your money and they decided that ICOs are too risky for you. Soon they will decide that cryptos are also too risky for you and you're f**ked. Only "certified investors" i.e. the bankers are allowed to get profits from the newly emerging tech and startups.
Many ICOs, thus, have a choice: either comply with these strict regulation and only allow accredited investors to participate, or open the ICO to everyone except those from US, China, and Singapore.
SEC tried to consider ico as security and high risk potential investment for their investors. That's why majority of icos are not accepted the ico participant from US. China and singapore has similar case with it. All of them are consideing about ico just security token to the investors.
Because SEC is seeing cryptocurrency as a big threat to the country's economy thats why they want to regulate the ICOs to investment scams.
soon all ico tokens and projects will be under pressure to stop
It is due to the SEC regulations of the US.
They are only stopping them because those countries have some regulations that go against ICO's.
They are only stopping them because those countries have some regulations that go against ICO's.
Because of the ban on ICO in both the U.S. and China, almost all of the ICO programs prohibit people from participating in these areas.
Many ICOs, thus, have a choice: either comply with these strict regulation and only allow accredited investors to participate, or open the ICO to everyone except those from US, China, and Singapore.
This is due to regulations of the concerned authorities of this countries. They are strict rules which ico that doesn't want to land in trouble will avoid to go against.
Many ICOs, thus, have a choice: either comply with these strict regulation and only allow accredited investors to participate, or open the ICO to everyone except those from US, China, and Singapore.
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